[TBD]: 40th Birthday Trip - Day 19 - Travel Day home (October 2, 2025)

Today has been a very long day. It started with the kids getting up and convincing their parents, if they showered and got ready quickly they could go to the lobby and play on the iWall. They did it and were having so much fun when the adults finally went down for breakfast at 9 am.

We ate breakfast (Lola didn’t eat that much, and AA tried to boil her eggs, but someone stole the first bunch). It was a typical continental breakfast, with lots of gluten. B had a milk moustache just like Jack Sparrow on her shirt.

After breakfasts the kids continued to play on the iWall, while the adults went to get the bags, and check out of the hotel. We took the tram to Terminal 2, and lost MBM again, but she got on a different car of the train.

Made it to check our bags, and through security. B played some PS5 in the waiting area, and we boarded the plane. It has been a long time since we have flown together. Unfortunately our seats weren’t very close to each other, but that was ok.

A 9 hour flight from Paris to Calgary, and the kids stayed awake the whole time. AA called in advance to get Lola a Gluten free meal, but that was unsuccessful, so she scraped off the cheese of the normal chicken meal, and ate AA’s potatoes of the tiny little meal. There was bread, crackers with cheese, and chocolate mousse also that she didn’t eat.

Lola watched 3 movies, slept a little and played a lot of the interactive game on the screen called 2048. AA read his book, the the kids played/watched their iPads.

We arrived in Calgary, went through customs and then went for A & W. DD was the most excited. B decided to have pizza, but we all enjoyed our meals and Root Beer.

We got to sit together on the flight to Winnipeg, which was super exciting as we don’t think we have flown together since 2018. Lola tried to keep MBM awake, but she couldn’t do it, and she fell asleep with 25 minutes left on the flight.

We had an amazing trip, and can’t believe Lola and AA were gone for 19 days. We will see what our next adventure as our Ohana of 6 will be (nothing is currently planned).

Lola is off to her Work conference tomorrow, and AA has a lot of things to get done around the house (like cut our grass). It has been so warm while we were away. The others were heading back home to play some hockey!